Prison Name: | Western Missouri Correctional Center |
Location: | Clinton County |
Status: | Operational |
Classification: | Medium,Maximum |
Capacity: | 1,975 |
Opened: | 1988 |
Managed By: | Missouri Department of Corrections |
Director: | Anne L. Precythe |
Governor: | Mike Parson |
Warden: | Christopher Brewer |
Street-Address: | 609 E Pence Road |
City: | Cameron |
County: | Clinton County |
State: | Missouri |
Zip: | 64429 |
Country: | United States |
Western Missouri Correctional Center (WMCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Cameron, DeKalb County, Missouri. (The town of Cameron straddles DeKalb and Clinton Counties.) [1] According to the Official Manual State of Missouri the facility has a capacity of 1925[2] medium security prisoners.
The facility opened in 1988 and is immediately adjacent to the Crossroads Correctional Center (CRCC), a maximum security facility for men which opened in 1997.[3] Crossroads was closed in July 2019 and one side of WMCC was converted into a maximum security prison, receiving many of those formerly held at CRCC.[4]